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Re:Breaking the Salary Sharing Taboo by ChuckNorris89 on Saturday February 22, 2020 @06:07AM (#22390402)
1. Worth is relative. You can't know the performance of someone you've just interviewed for an hour to someone who's been working there for years. The new guy might just be good at whiteboarding and negotiating but could be a mediocre employee at best on your codebase. When you get a job your pay isn't dictated by your "worth", whatever that is, but by current market conditions.

2. That's how it should be in an ideal world but the reality is different and companies know through years of experience that the current system works better for them rather than the one you'd want.

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Re:Breaking the Salary Sharing Taboo by madeofpalk on Saturday February 22, 2020 @06:16AM (#22390435)
> Worth is relative. You can't know the performance of someone you've just interviewed for an hour to someone who's been working there for years

Supposedly you can because you're offering them 10% more than the rest of your employees...

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Re:Breaking the Salary Sharing Taboo by ChuckNorris89 on Saturday February 22, 2020 @06:46AM (#22390532)
Like I said previously, you're offering them 10% more because of market conditions(you need some fresh meat on your project ASAP), not because of their (yet unknown) performance, and hedge your bets that the ones already working for you won't find out(here salaries are confidential) or are to tied down to be looking for new jobs so soon.

I hate this approach, but for most companies in Europe it's the reality that works in their favor.

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Re:Breaking the Salary Sharing Taboo by yibg on Saturday February 22, 2020 @03:33PM (#22393162)
Lots of reasons view points could be different:

- Worth is subjective. I'm sure we've all had conversations about someone where some view the person as great and others view the same person as meh or under performing. Value is also determined based on information, which usually people don't have the same amount of. So very possible the hiring person or committee sees different value in a person than fellow engineers or teammates.

- Value judgement, especially for hiring is also point in time. Could very well be the person as presented during interview is a rockstar, but after landing on the team doesn't perform well for whatever reason.

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